“She was freaking out,” Philip Schotte, who was aboard the infested flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Tuesday, told Fox 2 Detroit. “She was just trying to kind of fight off these maggots.”
He said he looked across the aisle and saw at least a dozen maggots tumbling onto the woman from the overhead bin.
Another passenger had placed carry-on – more like carrion – luggage stuffed with newspaper-wrapped fish into the reeking receptacle.
“I don’t really know what was going through my mind. I was trying to process it – disgust is one thing of course,” Schotte told the outlet.
“We had to wait there for help to actually come,” he added.
“They found out that there was a rotten fish in there,” Schotte, a Netherlands native who lives in Iowa, told the outlet. “I did see everyone’s reaction to the bag being opened, which was just an immediate pinching of the nose.”
The man who apparently placed the stinking seafood there then stood up and claimed it, according to the report.
“The passenger explained when he opened it there were fish in there. That’s the only word I heard from as far back as I was sitting, just the word ‘fish,’” Schotte told WXYZ.
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